The week in Pictures

  12 December 2015    Read: 2751
The week in Pictures
A day of national mourning to honor the memory of those killed in a recent accident and fire on the platform No.10 at the Guneshli offshore field of Azerbaijan, Dec. 6, 2015.

1. The Al Fursan aerobatic team of the United Arab Emirates`air force performs a stunt at the World Air Games in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dec. 6. 2015



2. A car is submerged under flood waters in the city centre of Carlisle, northwest England, as severe flooding in the region has left thousands of homes without power for a second day. Dec. 7, 2015.



3. A great tit poses for a red squirrel with a camera in a forest in the Voronezh region in Russia, Dec. 7, 2015.



4. Riot police use water cannons as protesters throw fireworks during a rally against the curfew in the Sur district of the Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, Dec. 8, 2015.



5. Flowers placed as a tribute to San Bernardino police officers killed in the line of duty are seen at a memorial in San Bernardino, California. San Bernardino County employees began returning to work under tighter security on Monday, five days after a co-worker and his wife killed 14 of their colleagues at a holiday party, Dec. 8, 2015.



6. South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius reacts in the dock during his bail hearing proceedings at the Gauteng Division of the High Court, Pretoria, South Africa, Dec. 8, 2015.



7. A woman covers her face with a mask as she rushes to a subway station on a heavily polluted day in Beijing Dec. 8, 2015.



8. Migrants and refugees wait to return by bus to Athens after they were not given permission to cross the Greek-Macedonian border near Idomeni on Dec. 9, 2015.



9. A picture made available on Dec. 10, 2015 shows the light beam from the Turkish Coastal Guard ship UMUT shown on a boat carrying Syrian migrants as they attempt to reach Greek Island Chios at the Agean Sea in Cesme district near Izmir, coastal city of Turkey, Dec. 9, 2015.



10. Daniel Holtzclaw, center, puts his head on the table and cries as the verdicts are read in his trial in Oklahoma City, Dec. 10, 2015.



11. Ivan Zvonimir Cicak`s trousers fell down while posing for a photo with Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic. Ivan, Croatia`s leading rights group chief, was attending an event marking the forthcoming international human rights day in Zagreb, Dec. 11, 2015.



12. Search of 23 persons missing during accident in deep sea base number 10 in `Guneshli` oil rig in Azerbaijan, Dec. 11, 2015.



13. University students create an image of Marilyn Monroe by clearing snow on a soccer pitch, in Changchun, Jilin province, China, Dec. 11, 2015.


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